People say I am very dark with this blog. That I never put up good news. Well today, I am about to share some really great news. In their latest Take Note newsletter, the Delaware Dept. of Education talks about how a student from Sussex Academy found an error in a family resource guide involving a math problem.
The problem was about figuring out the world population. In the example, the DOE estimated the human population of Earth to be 7×108. Sussex Academy junior Finn Davis was helping his little sister look through the guide from the DOE when he immediately noticed the glaring error. According to the DOE’s calculation, that would put the world’s population at 700 million. Finn, being a brilliant math student, corrected the error which should have been 7×109 which would have more closely estimate the world’s population at 7 billion.
Finn didn’t stop there. He notified the DOE of this error and they corrected the guide which will now have a correct estimation of the world’s population. Good job Finn! Who says I don’t post good news?
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